ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER PAVILION
Visit the Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center's Pavilion with its new location (on Polk Street and Golden Gate Avenue) at the 2008 San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration. Joining in the pavilion are Gay Asian Pacific Alliance, Asian American Recovery Services, The Banyan Tree Project, Club Dragon, Danny Dan Photography, Asian Equality, The Vet Center and many more!
Rapid Oral HIV Testing
A&PI Wellness Center will offer free, confidential, and anonymous Rapid Oral HIV testing for at-risk A&PIs on Sunday, June 28, 10am to 5pm at A&PI Wellness Center's booth on Polk Street and Golden Gate Avenue. No appointments are necessary, although we encourage you to arrive early to avoid long waits. Due to the limited amount of first come, first served HIV testing slots available during Pride Sunday, we will also be scheduling future appointments for our Wednesday Clinic.
Want to get tested sooner? For information about our weekly Wednesday and Friday Clinic call 415.292.3400.
Visit us at the A&PI booth and talk with us, get tested, get free stuff! Meet other A&PI organizations such GAPA and many more. For more information, call 415 292.3420 ext. 348
Asian & Pacific Islander Dance Arena
Asian & Pacific Islander Pride is proud to present the very first Asian & Pacific Islander Dance Arena presented by Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center, Club Dragon and SHANGRI-LA!
This dance area will be start thumpin’ beats from 12:00pm till 6:30pm featuring A&PI LGBT deejays from Club Dragon and SHANGRI-LA! The Dance Arena also will feature guest dance groups such as Downe FX, Freeplay Dance Group, Twisted Illusion and many more!
DEEJAYS
PKDJ
A long time supporter of A&PIWC and GAPA events, PKDJ is returning to the A&PI Pride for a 3rd exciting year. Besides monthly residencies at Club Dragon and Shangri-la @ the Endup, PKDJ can be found spinning his signature high energy sets of the hottest dance, house, and hiphop beats all over SF's popular venues @ Club Roe, GlasKat, Kelly's Mission Rock, Suede, and SF Regency Center. Visit www.pkdj.net for more info and download his latest mixes.
Kevin Lee
 DJ Kevin Lee began his career practicing every day and mixing different songs, which eventually evolved into his renowned circuit/dance sound. His passion for music is evident and the joy he receives from pleasing a crowd is apparent while performing at venues such as SF’s legendary End Up, monthly at Club 8 for Dragon, and many Gus Presents parties such as Underworld and Adonis. Check out his upcoming gigs at www.djkevinlee.com and come say hi!
DrewBAD
Dj DrewBad LOVES being a DJ! He LOVES just about all types of music, but lately been focusing on dance music. He LOVES making people get wild, jumping and dancing till their pants fall! You might have seen him and can find him playing in Berkeley at Kips, Blakes, Lucre Lounge, Adidas Originals or at Late night Frat parties. In Oakland find him at the White Horse or at Luka’s Tap Lounge. And in San Francisco see him playing at Glow, Mercury, The Lookout, BOC, Outfit, All About You, Broadway Studios, Shangri La at The End Up, and the next two stops are in Los Angeles and Las Vegas! While still barely 22 years old, he has been rocking parties for 9 years now and plans to rock you at SF Pride 2009! http://www.djdrewbad.com http://www.myspace.com/drewbad
PEGASUS
Originally from SoCal, DJ Pegasus grew up around music, performance, & dance—playing various musical instruments, studying Music at UC Berkeley, dance training in various genres, and his most recent endeavor as a dance DJ throughout California. As he explores new music to bring into his sets, his music background draws him to a mixture of sounds, rhythms, and ethnic groups. Though, as a dancer, the most important aspect of music is its ability to make you dance. Put your dancing shoes on and get ready for a joruney on the dance floor! http://web.mac.com/bryhuang
DANCE GROUPS
Downe FX
DowneFX Dance Company's mission is to provide continuous education of urban performance arts as a tool to promote empowerment, creativity and social awareness for downe, gay, bisexual, lesbian communities of color. DowneFX has recently been established as a non-profit 501(c)(3) community-based grassroots organization in March 2005!
In 2001, DowneFX began with five original core members to promote community awareness of gay men's health issues in San Francisco. Today, DowneFX has become one of the premier queer performance arts organization in California with chapters in Los Angeles and the Bay Area. For more visit www.downefx.org.
Freeplay Dance Crew
Freeplay is a hip hop dance group with Chinese, Korean and Filipino dancers whose members boast over forty years of dance experience including gigs ranging from the San Francisco Ballet to hip hop fitness instructors at Crunch, Golds and 24 Hour Fitness.
Established in the summer of 2000, Freeplay since then has grown to a dynamic group of diverse and multi-talented members. The group boasts a measure of notoriety in Bay Area circles, having performed at numerous hip-hop dance shows and other Bay Area venues including Trannyshack, the Faux Drag Queen Pageant, Club Q, and Gay Day at Great America.
Freeplay regularly donates benefit performances, raising money for organizations such as Dance Mission, the Jon Sims Center for the Arts, Mercy High School Performing Arts Program, the Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco, and the Nevada Theater Company. www.freeplaydance.com
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